Including Multiple Ground Motion Intensity Measures in the Derivation of Fragility Functions for Earthquake Loss estimation

Ground motion intensity measures for performance-based earthquake engineering

A critical issue in the probabilistic framework for performance-based earthquake engineering is the choice of ground motion intensity measure(s). In an effort to identify optimum intensity measure(s), a comprehensive parametric statistical study based on 881 earthquake record components was conducted to identify the correlation between (1) seismological variables (SV’s) and traditional ground m...

Earthquake Loss Estimation Including Transportation Network Damage

Large earthquakes have the potential of causing extensive damage and enormous economic losses. These losses are primarily attributable to the reduction in functionality of various facilities in the affected region and the rebuilding costs, and can be reduced through strategic preand post-earthquake decisions. This thesis describes an integrated methodology to estimate losses due to scenario ear...

PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER Vector-Valued Ground Motion Intensity Measures for Probabilistic Seismic Demand Analysis

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Influence of Ground Motion Duration on the Structural Response at Multiple Seismic Intensity Levels

This paper aims to investigate the effects of motion duration on the structural seismic demands, seeking potential correlations between motion durations and structural responses at several seismic intensity levels. Three seismic intensity levels with 100years, 475years, and 2475years earthquake return periods (RPs) are first considered for correlation computations. Spectrally matched ground mot...

Earthquake Ground Motion